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Remove last occurrence of characters

I am trying to figure out how to remove the last occurrence of a string of characters at the bottom of a file. I've got the following script, but it's not doing as requested. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

iter = r"(\*)+"
found = re.findall(iter, finalOutput)[-1]
finalOutput.replace(found, "")

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The code I'm running this on is:

*******************************
text
*******************************
<code>

*******************************
text
*******************************
<code>

*******************************
text
*******************************
<code>

******************************* <-- this line

I want to remove only the last set of *'s.

Terry Woods

Try this, assuming you can operate on the string as a single value:

mypattern = r"\*+\s*$"
mystring = mystring.replace(mypattern, "")

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I also allowed for space characters after the last * characters, just in case there are some.

gelonida

Could you please clarify:

You have a huge string spanning multiple lines.

You want to find the last occurence of one or more stars and replace them with nothing?

Do these stars have to be in a separate line?
could there be whitespace before or after these stars?
could there still be some text / code after these stars??

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pingeyeg

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TerryAtOpus: Unfortunately, that still leaves the last bit of *'s at the bottom.

gelonida: No space or new lines after the *'s at the bottom. There are new lines before the *'s. No text after the *'s either.

pingeyeg

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Thanks guys!